by Michelle Moran | Oct 21, 2025 | The Writer
A Lesson in Italian My cat is teaching me Italian. She’s still mainly focused on my language, but history lessons have also come to the surface by chance. More on the history lessons another day. First, let me explain the Italian lessons. Truth be told, she is not my...
by Michelle Moran | Oct 19, 2025 | The Writer
I wrote this post last spring as we were embarking on our journey back from Sicily to the US. I had not posted it as we were immediately submerged in life in the States, scrambling with renovations, farm dinners, and family affairs. What a joy it was to spend the...
by Michelle Moran | Jul 28, 2024 | The Writer
Technology is both my best friend and enemy. In the mornings, my practice has been to open my email and start the day by knocking out to-do lists before I write. The writing never comes because the lists are always so long. Then something happened the other day. I was...
by Michelle Moran | Sep 10, 2023 | #BestofBlueRidge, #ChefDannyMellman, #dannyandmichelle, #Homestead, #litlpond, The Writer
My husband Danny and I were in the jungle of Belize having breakfast, bird-watching, and being entertained by an acrobatic group of Howler Monkeys. We began chatting with a couple at a nearby table. They were raised in the Midwest and living in Texas. As always with...
by Michelle Moran | Aug 25, 2023 | The Writer
The beauty of Pigadia. A menu map of Karpathos. Heaven on earth. Achat Beach. Our trip to Karpathos, Greece, began as a joke. Well, not really, Here’s how the story goes. We were visiting Danny’s niece and her husband in New York City. It was a reunion delayed by the...
